The Detective is Dead
Subtitle: A Harpur & Iles Mystery
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780393322460
First sentence: When someone as grand and profitable as Oliphant Kenward Knapp was suddenly taken out of the business scene, you had to expect a bloody big rush to grab his domain, bloody big meaning not just bloody big, but big and very bloody.